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Corps of Military Police makes merry

BANGALORE: Corps of Military Police swamped Bharath Earth Movers Limited 10-0 in the State ‘B’ division hockey tournament here on Monday.

Kamal Horo (6th & 9th), Manoj Tirkey (15th & 26th), SK Minj (19th & 39th), Gita Ranjeeth Singh (29th & 41st) logged a brace each and Kalyan Guria (21st) and Achappa (47th) scored one apiece for the winner.

In another match Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited and Vasu Sports Club played out a 3-3 draw. Praful Kujur (8th), Diwakar (21st) and Bepari (40th) scored for BSNL with the second goal coming off a penalty stroke.

Praveen (13th & 15th) notched up a double and Pramod (58th) scored off a penalty corner for Vasu Sports Club.

In a third fixture Hassan Hockey club and Hindustan Machine Tools played out a 4-4 draw.

Dhanvanth (5th & 54th) and Vijay Kumar (16th and 36th) scored for Hassan HC and Sanath Kumar (12th), Sukumar (19th) , Asif Sharif (21st) and Ravi (58th) scored for HMT.

Vijaya Bank scores win

Vijaya Bank continued its winning ways with a 71-52 win over HASC in the State A division basketball league championship for the Prof. N.C. Parappa Memorial Trophy at the Sree Kanteerava stadium courts here on Monday.

The bankmen led 38-17 lead at half time.

With an all-win record the bankmen and MEG will clash for the title on November 15.

The results: Vijaya Bank 71 (Deva Kumar 22, Ashraf Ali 11, Murli Mohan 10)bt HASC 52 (Umashankar 14, Girish 12)(Ht: 38-17).

BEL pips Naveen HC

BEL Colony Youth Association ‘C’ prevailed over Naveen Hockey Club 4-2 via tie-breaker in the BCYA’s State-level hockey tournament here on Monday.

At full-time, both the teams were tied 1-1 with Srikanth scoring in the fourth minute for BCYA and Prabhu equalising for Naveen HC in the 29th minute. In the tie-breaker, Samapth, Giridhar and Ajit Kumar struck for BCYA while, Naveen HC’s lone strike came through Ajit Kumar.

In another tie, East India HC drubbed BCYA ‘B’ 5-0.

All the goals came in the first half with scorers being Samson, Deepak, Thirumalavan, Richie and Karuna.

Bhaskar shines

B. Bhaskar was in roaring form and came up with breaks of 215 (sixth visit), 105 (ninth), 92 (19th) and 193 (26th) to cruise to a 1217-608 win over B.V.S. Murthy in the second leg super league of the 38th senior billiards state ranking tournament at the KSBA hall here on Monday.

The results: Junior snooker (second leg): Balaji Reddy bt Manju Kiran 96-09, 56-09, 34-65, 60-46 (First frame awarded to Balaji); Amit Bhushan bt Mohammed Ali 42-51, 30-58, 61-46, 75-48, 61-52, 70-07.

Senior billiards (second leg - super league): B. Bhaskar bt B.V.S. Murthy 1217 – 608; Arvind Savur bt M.Lakshman 944 – 530; Duncan Mackenzie bt G. Kishore Kumar 839 – 349; D. Raj Kumar bt A. Satish Kumar 1001 – 655.

KSCA tournaments

The Karnataka State Cricket Association Mangalore Zone A, B and C league tournaments will commence soon. The Dakshina Kannada District Cricket Association (DKDCA) will hold a formal meeting of representatives of all team captains in this regard at the Nehru Maidan in Mangalore on November 20 at 6 p.m.

Teams can send their entries to Donnet D’ Souza, tournament committee chairman, St. Aloysius College, Mangalore.

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